She means this, Link
Top voter each month has a chance to win rank

Wrong format but nonetheless
Any form of cheating will not be tolerated - This infraction results in a permanent ban.
Appeal Denied Gl elsewhere

Hello, you and you alone are responsible for what is done on your account blaming others is no excuse and tbh hardly believable, however seeing as this is your first ban you will be pardoned 3 days from your appeal(that being tomorrow the 18th) make sure you read the rules over and get well acquainted with them.

@deyahruhd @iDogeTwinkie Yea enough of that if you want to continue your conversation make a different thread

I like the idea of top voter once the threshold is hit, voting is helpful to the server and shows the player is committed, if there are multiple players with the same amount of votes we could rng pick from them to select the winner if not multiple winners,we can also exclude a previous winner from the next selection to make it more fair to others,giving it to defaults would be best imo however if a ranked player wins we could give them a timeframe to select someone they wish or they can abstain and have staff pick the next follow up in votes

@Jkeller4000 I do think having a second "default" rank would be nice though.

how mods watch players some times, maybe a second default rank that a person gets after the first visit by a mod, that has seen their mining tunnels and is sorta certain that the new player is not a hacker.

because sometimes i sell god tools to players who i have never seen before and i am not sure how they got so many diamonds so fast. It would make me feel more comfortable trading; if i had an inkling that the mods verified the new players diamonds to be at least semi legit.

instead of just guessing if the new players diamonds are legit and then if i get too concerned i just stop trading with that player.

but i guess this would give away quickly who the mods have visited and maybe that is meant to be a secret :)

The issue with this is that some cheaters aren't cheating all the time specially the sneaky ones that know some of the staff and avoid it when on, we've caught long standing players that seemed good people and ended up getting caught cheating when they didn't expect it.

Nope, we gave second chances in the past and for the most part it wasnt worth it, also dont see selecting players to watch them working out either, overall this idea would add alot more work for staff for not much a benefit.I also want to point out that ignorance of the rules is not a good excuse its on the player to inform themselves of them and its rather easy to do so,and when we had the accept rules before joining phase, hardly anyone bothered to read them ingame most i know of ended up reading them on the forums once they saw they enjoyed the server.
Cons outweigh the pros heavily here imo

Usage of a hacked client is always a permanent ban there are no excuses or second chances.Your other friend was told to drop the subject on the server if he felt the need he could have taken it to the forums for a discussion there but insisted on pestering staff over it,he then left and sent a rather dumb and offensive forum post to staff which resulted in his ban.You can choose to accept and understand this or not.
The 1 that cheated will remain banned and the other will be pardoned showing he understands the rules and the reason behind his ban.

As its been a while since your ban I'll go ahead and pardon you however be sure to read over the rules to avoid future incidents.
Rules

They can hatch just sounds like bad luck